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Cam Hashemi
Personal blog · camhashemi.com/postsphilosophypoliticscareer
Cam Hashemi's personal blog at camhashemi.com covers philosophy, politics and career. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Accurate Estimations”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Cam Hashemi's posts on getting feedback on writing and on focus versus coordination in software engineering. Commenters cite them as related reads on those topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
helping people help themselves
Most-linked posts?
- Accurate Estimations2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-30
- Democracy vs. Autocracy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-10
- Focus vs Coordination2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-26
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of this blog post: https://camhashemi.com/posts/organic-proposals/ > You'll get much further if you do one or two simple passes on your writing, and then pass what you've written around and ask for feedback. I've found that the more time you spend "intellectualizing" your own thoughts, it'll become harder to back down, because you get so invested in your ideas.
Comment linking /posts/organic-proposals/
on “How to think in writing”Submitted Focus vs Coordination as a story · 90 points
HN discussionI completely agree with this essay. I wrote more on the problems with estimations, and some solutions, here: https://camhashemi.com/posts/accurate-estimations/
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on “Software estimation is hard – do it anyway”Submitted Software Entropy as a story · 53 points
HN discussionfwiw I’ve written about that here: https://camhashemi.com/posts/building-through-uncertainty/
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on “Optimizing your talking points (2018)”Submitted Clever, Brave, Persistent as a story · 32 points
HN discussionreminded me of : https://randsinrepose.com/archives/anti-flow/ as well as https://camhashemi.com/posts/focus-vs-coordination/
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on “Deconcentration of Attention: addressing the complexity of software engineering”Submitted Jerry Seinfeld, Social Anxiety, and Meditation as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accurate Estimations as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Democracy vs. Autocracy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Privacy Dilemma as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Democracy vs. Autocracy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Through Uncertainty as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Problems, Then Solutions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Dad's American Dream as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accurate Estimations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Refactoring Is Like Surgery as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accurate Estimations (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Organic Proposals as a story · 1 points
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